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tv lINCOLNi cloudy and sllgMlf Warner through Thursday; highest timptr- perature near 13 this afternoon, lowest near tonight; highest Thursday. NEBRASKA: Partly cloudy, a low scat- lorod thundershowers in and north portions. warmor In southeast half tonight; Thursday partly cloudy with highoot temperatures 83 90'. THE LINCOLN STAR Police 2-A8 ItTelephone Fire 2-2222 HOME EDITION I II A I. I II I', II I 1.1 2 8.

I 7 I CANCEL SHARE Lee Pleads Guilty To Murder Charge Held To District Court Uilfioutf Hond; Special Jury Trial Cndeeided In a barely audible voice, George Thomas Lee, 16, Oconto, pleaded guilty in Municipal court Wednesday morning to a first degree murder charge of slaying Charles Mulholland, 8-year-old Lincoln boy. Following plea and waiver QOf preliminary hearing, he was bound over to the Lancaster coun- Towns In Java Af ire Scorched Earth Tactics Adopted BATAVIA, Four Java towns were in flames tonight as Indonesian troops, retreating on two fronts threatening their capital, adopted scorched earth tactics before a determined Dutch army drive, an Indonesian communique announced. Salatiga, important town south of Semarang and astride the highway to the Indonesian capital, Jogjakarta, was burning, the munique said. Armor-supported Dutch infantry had seized Salatiga and driven beyond it on the route to Jogjakarta. The republicans also put the torch to Lawang, 12 miles north of Malang, objective of another Dutch drive in east central Java In the west, Soemedang and Tjitjalengka, both 20 miles east of Bandoeng, also were fired, the communique added.

It said both towns were levelled. Java Being Sliced. Another Indonesian bulletin said a Dutch column of 50 armored vehicles, including tanks, was less than 20 miles from the important north coast port of Cheribon. This is the column which has speared more than 55 miles northeast from Bandoeng since Monday. The Dutch army today reported that American trained marines moving south from north-coast beachheads had less than 10 miles to go to pinch off 2,400 square miles of east Java from the rest of republican Indonesia.

The army, in its second com- since hostilities started Sunday night and the first to be specific on locating, indicated that its motorized and armor-protected troops were pushing deep into Java and Sumatra on at least lu fronts, with resistance only radically On the Semarang front in central Java, the communique said Dutch forces had advanced south ward 30 more than third of the way to the republican capital of Jogjakarta. But an Indonesian army munique declared that infiltrating (Continued on Two) ty District court without bond by Judge Edward Fisher. Under Nebraska law, he must have a jury trial. The jury, in trials for first degree murder, must decide between a sentence of life imprisonment or death by electrocution, after one imprisonment. In the event that the county attorney should decide to amend the complaint to second degree murder and the District court accepted the guilty plea, the court could sentence Lee to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without jury trial.

Wagener has not indicated that he intends to amend the first degree murder charge or whether he will ask for the death penalty. 100 Onlookers. A crowd of approximately 100 jammed the small Municipal court room during the five minutes it took for plea to be made. Some were in the room for more than two hours before the arraignment. Lee appeared in court wearing the same shirt and trousers in1 which he was arrested.

He was quiet and subdued throughout the brief period, looking at his feet. County Attorney Frederick Wagener said Wednesday that it would now be up to District Judge Harry R. Ankeny, assignment judge, to determine if a special jury will be called to try Lee. In the event a special jury is not called, the trial will be at the regular September term. To Have Attorney.

Wagener also said that two psychiatrists are continuing their examination of the youth Wednesday. mother. Mrs. Mum Lee, of Dayton through a local Catholic priest, asked Wagener that the boy be represented by an attorney. Wagener assured the priest that L.e would have an attorney in District court, upon his motion.

When Judge Fisher informed Lee of his legal rights, and asked the youth if he understood, he murmured, Tuesday afternoon Lee calmly re-enacted for police and county authorities the manner in which (Continued on Page Two) Police Share Of Reward Goes To Mulholland Lincoln police officers have waived their share of the reward money offered for the capture and conviction of George Thomas Lee, admitted murderer of 8-year-old Charles Mulholland, Ctuef of Police Joseph Carroll announced Wednesday. Local portion of the more than $650 reward money will be given to the bereaved mother of the murdered boy. Carroll said a majority of the reward money contributors had left its distribution to his discretion. He stated that the county office and the highway patrol had given their their "wholehearted to his proposal. Part of the reward money, Chief Carroll added, will be sent to Des Moines officers for their co-operation in the capture of Lee.

"A large portion of the money should go to the Lincoln police officers since they worked untiringly toward the apprehension of the Carroll declared. He reiterated that all Lincoln law enforcement agencies had waived their claim to the money in order that it may be given to the Mulholland mother. The money will not be divided until of the Lee trial in District court, the chief added. Must Pay Cost Of Living In River Basins President Warns Either Prevention Or Dev as ation ii I um I Russia Assailed By Three One Of Strongest Personal Attacks Hurled At Deputy LAKE SUCCESS Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. top deputy in the United Nations was lambasted today in one of the strongest personal attacks ever made in the U.N.

After Alexei N. Krasilnikov had delivered a 30-minute speech castigating the western powers for their opposition to the admission of Soviet-supported Albania to the Valentine G. Lawford said in measured words: "It is deplorable that we should he subjected day after day, week after week, month after month to this junk about provocations, lies, noises and repetitions. We are presumed to he intelligent officials and not a gathering of illiterates. "Regrettably "We draw our conclusions from i facts and not from slogans.

1 term the Soviet speech a regrettably offensive Col. W. R. Hodgson of Australia took the floor immediately to declare: glad I am that these meetings are now open to the press. Previously we have had to put up with calculated abuse and distortions of this particular representative of the Soviet Union for a long Hayden Raynor of the United States told delegates: dignify the utterly ridiculous and irrelevant statements of the Soviet delegate by answering.

I resent the tenor of his remarks." Defends Albania. MAROONED IN TRUCK Charles water from torrenilal rains caused photo Wednesday.) Concordia College Receives $204,934 For Auditorium Concordia Teachers college in Seward, will receive a $204,934 grant approved by the delegates to the centennial convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago. The grant will be used for the construction of an auditorium and the purchase of an organ and pianos. Oscar T. Doerr, Omaha, was among those nominated for election to the layman board.

The convention voted to set up a senior college for theological stu dents in the middle west. The delegates voted to spend up to $1,500.000 for the project but the selection of a site was left to the board of education which was directed to report to the next convention. Delegates said the college possibly would be in Chicago, St. Louis or Valparaiso, Ind. At present tffe synod operates 14 junior colleges from which ministerial students go into four year theological seminaries.

Mother Believe Lee Is Murderer Last Saw Son About Year Ago (Special to the Star DAYTON, Ohio When informed of the confession of her 16-year-old son, George, to the murder of Charles Mulholland in Lincoln, Mrs. Murn Lee, employed at an industrial plant here, said: "I see how he possibly could have done it. so different from what I know of him. I just Mrs. Lee added that when she heard that George was arrested for the murder, she thought it was a case of She last saw her son about a year ago.

She has remained at her work this week. KANSAS President Truman said today in a message to an emergency flood control conference here that the price of occupancy of the rich Mississippi basin must be paid either in recurring devastation or in preventive measures. Lachlean Macleay, St. Louis, president of the Mississippi Valley association, read the telegram at the opening of the conference, attended by 300 flood control leaders up and down the basin. Need For Education.

"Recent weeks have emphasized with great force the need of educational work such as the Mississippi Valley association can per- farm," the message read. I have pointed out in a message to congress, the drainage basin of the Mississippi and its tributaries comprises nearly half of the nation in area and population. "We must therefore pay the price for occupancy of these lands either in the form of recurring devastation or in preventive measures. I trust your deliberations will be fruitful of wise counsels and constructive action to advance the great work necessary to be done in the Mississippi Macleay spoke before introducing Brig. Gen.

Lewis A Pick, Missouri river division engineer and co-originator of the Pick-Sloan plan for flood control. Macleay pointed out that conference was for the purpose of discussing adequate protection of the Missouri and upper Mississippi bains, where floods this year alone have taken 50 lives, destroyed property valued at $225,000,000 and disrupted the business life of hundreds of communities. Krasilnikov, the Soviet delegate to the U. membership committee, had amid certain would not be aatlafted unless they could scat a man on the Albanian general staff to suppress the democratic elements In Albania He said these keep repeating accusations against Albania which have been proved many times to be outright Krasilnikov pictured the Soviet-supported country as a peace-loving state which could satisfy all charter. obligations of the U.

N. 14-Year Old Victim Softball Accident ODESSA, Mo. (INS) Carl Davidson, 14, was killed in a soft ball accident Tuesday night as he- exhorted his 16-year-old sister, Margaret, to The youth was practicing as catcher for a boy scout team which was to play an Anniston, troop team later in the eve ning. He was struck on the head by the ball and died 15 minutes later from a ruptured blood vessel. Your Star Serial Story 4 Editorials 6 Nebraska News .....................10 Social News ............................13 Com'cs ......................................17 Sports 20 Radio Programs .....................20 Markets ....................................21 Want Ads .........................22, 23 Hanger Fire Damage Put At Million At St.

Joseph Mo. ST. JOSEP mo ire razed the main hunger at Rosecrans field early today, destroyed a warehouse and two DC-4 airplanes causing damage estimated at $1,394,000. The fire started in an electric motor in an overhead door in the hanger. Half of the fire-fighting equip ment in St.

Joseph was sent to the fire and through the efforts many frame buildings were saved. Suspect Hnntpd For West Coast It oil lie ry One of the suspects questioned in connection with the Mulholland murder has been identified as a paroled life termer from San Quentin, now wanted in that state for a theater robbery, the office reported Wednesday. Ray Bowden, 24, of Massachusetts, was returned last week from Sutton by Sheriff Myles Holloway and Lt. Harold Smith after his apprehension by the Sutton sheriff. Cleared of any connection with the murder, Bowden was held by Holloway for further investigation.

Bowden was picked up in Lexington recently and released before it was discovered he was wanted. A warrant for his arrest, I received in Lexington from California, is now being forwarded to the county office. Erie Is Flooded By Rain State Of Emergency Exists: 75 Families Driven From Homes ERIE, Pa. state of emergency existed in this industrial town of 135,000 today in the wake of torrential rains that flooded the streets, leaving 75 families homeless and causing damage estimated at $1,000,000. The 75 Negro families evacuat ed yesterday from the Franklin Terrace housing project on the east side of town were housed temporarily in the city hall an nex.

Swim To Safety. Many of the evacuees swam to safety through 15 feet of water while others paddled to dry land in canoes and rowboats. Ten hours of incessant, pounding rains from 9:13 a. m. to 6 p.

m. yesterday simulated flood conditions not seen here since 1915 when Mill creek overflowed and 30 persons lost their lives. The freak flood, weather bureau officials emphasized, was caused entirely by the unprecedented rainfall which piled up 9.03 inches to break all records for any 24- hour period. State Department Acts After A Survey Of Needs Supply Of Food Held Sufficient Austria And tireeee Ship men Readied WASHINGTON (AP) state dopartment announced to lay that Poland's of $360,000,000 American foreign relief program has been celled. The action was taken on the recommendation of Col.

R. H. Harrison, a special assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, who made a survey of minimum food needs for Secretary of State Marshall. Harrison reported that and other foods are available to meet the minimum food needs of the Polish people generally for the balance of this calendar He said imports of medieal supplies and supplementary foodstuffs for sperial groups appear justified and that some imports of grain seed and tcrtilizer would be helpful. Must to Agencies.

The state department said in its announcement, however, that such special items could he supplied through private relief agencies and other sources, such as the international emergency fund. The announcement added: view of the above and of the fact that the funds available are sufficient to meet only the most urgent relief needs, it has been decided not to undertake a relief program for Poland." Poland, alone among the eastern European states entirely within the Soviet Russian orbit, was in- eluded among seven areas authorized by congress to share in the (Continued on Two) A. Brown wai lor several Tuesday lour ol a tlood that Incapacitated halt ion truck al Pa. (AP Wire Hr. Snyder To Grook Mission: Quits Slate Post Dr.

J. R. Snyder, chief of the state bureau of animal husbandry, has resigned to join the Greek mission headed by former Governor Dwight Griswold. He will report in Washington July 29 Rufus Howard, director of agriculture, in announcing the resignation ot Dr. Snyder said he hoped to name his successor s- day.

Howard expressed regret that the state was losing Dr. Hearing Begins On 24 Tax Valuations Propose IS Per Cent Hike For l.aneaster the services of Dr. Snyder, who he said has done an outstanding job since becoming head of the bureau in January 1941. "The control of disease inaugurated by Dr. Snyder is of the most effective programs of any Howard said "The law he outlined for passage in Nebraska is now recognized as a model and has been adopted in a number of As animal husbandryman and chief veterinarian of the mission Dr.

Snyder said he would chiefly he concerned with control of animal diseases. He said a num her of diseases not prevelant in this country would offer a challenge. but that measures devolped would be used mostly. Mrs. Snyder will accompany the doctor to Greece.

Their daughter, Mrs. Homer Wolfe, now visiting here form her home in Wenatche, will remain until her parents leave. It. A. Phillips Heads Central Telephone Co.

Remains Executive Of Has Company Dr. Oliver Everett Is Dead At 65 Prominent I'hgnlrlnw Formerly Head Of lAneoin San itarinm The state board of equalization Wednesday began a three day session to hear protests (if counties on proposed increases on valu ations to equalize them with other counties. Increases in business schedules were made in 29 counties and 16 were represented when the hearings opened. The hearings are being con ducted by Secretary of State Frank Marsh, Treasurer Edward Gillette and Robert M. Armstrong, tax commissioner.

Governor Val Peterson and Auditor Ray Johnson are absent. Only four counties, Dakota, Hamilton, Hayes and Keya Paha were heard at the morning session Thursday and Friday protests will be heard on increases in cattle (Continued on Pago Two) Truman, With A Happy Grin, Takes Old Senate Seat And Makes Brief Speech CRASH N. 20. Johnstown, on a farmhouse porch crawling on and knees through mountain underbrush nearly 24 hours to summon aid after his lather's plane crashed atop mountain. Searchers found the father, A.

ML Meek. $0, dead In the wreckage. (AF Wlrephoto WedneedayJ WASHINGTON A Breaking precedent, President Truman took his old seat in the senate today and made a brief speech saying he had spent the best 10 years of his life there. Grinning happily, the president, a former senator from Missouri, walked onto the senate floor unannounced after luncheon at the capitol. He took a rear row seat on the democratic side as senators and gallery occupants rose and applauded.

The senate at the moment was busy with routine, minor bills. But when Mr. Truman appeared, Sen. Vandenberg (R- Mich), the presiding officer, promptly recognized the president and welcomed him warmly. Vandenberg then said that he recognized the "senator from Missouri for five Senators applauded as President Truman arose and began a brief talk.

He said the senate had been very kind and that he never had had a more cordial welcome anywhere. "And been a lot of he added. The president recalled that senate rules prevent anyone but senators speaking there. He smiled as he broke the rule. "I get homesick for this Mr.

Truman said, speaking slowly. spent the best 10 years of my life in this The president added that a senator with whom lunched "dared to walk in and sit in my former seat. Sen. McGrath (D-RI) was in that seat. When the president walked in McGrath quickly rendered it to the chief executive.

After the initial cheer and applause, Vandenberg noted that this never had happened in the senate before. "I am very happy to welcome the former senator from Missouri to his old Vandenberg said, adding that he could not make this permanent because of his high regard for the present Missouri senators- Kem and Donnell. They are republicans. Vandenberg mentioned the "honor, integrity and of the president as a senator and offered him the best wishes for "health, happiness and Mr. Truman left within a few moments amid a burst of applause.

R. A. Phillips, Lincoln Gas company executive, was elected prcsi- dent and general manager of the Central Telephone company, it was announced Wednesday. The Central Telephone company owns and operates telephone prop ertiei in North Carolina, West Virginia, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, and controls companies in Virginia, Illinois and Wisconsin. Phillips will continue as vice- president and general manager of the Central Electric and Gas com pany, which owns the Central Telephone company, and gives electric or gas service to 72 communities in South Dakota and Nebraska, including Lincoln.

Phillips was born in Millom, the United States Independent Telephone association in 1941-42, and is on its executive, toll compensation and rural service committee at the present time. During the war he served on advisory committees of the board of war communications and was a member of the national war labor board telephone commission. Phillips was born in, Millom England in 1905, his family coming to the United States shortly thereafter. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1927 and joined the Central Electric and Gas company in 1929 In 1932 he was named assistant to the president and in 1936 was elected vice-president and general manager. In addition to his other duties, Phillips continues as president and general manager of the La Crosse, Wis, Telephone company, and recently was elected president and general manager of the Middle States Telephone company of Illinois; the Bluefield, W.

Va. Telephone company; Illinois Northwestern Telephone company of Tallahassee, Fla. He is also vice-president of the Virginia Telephone and Telegraph company. Dr. Oliver W.

Everett, 65, Lin coin physician for 26 years and one-time head of the former Lin coin sanitarium at Fourteenth and died Tuesday at his home, 1932 South Twenty-fourth street. Ill for more than a year, Dr. Everett died from a heart condition. Private graveside services will take place at 10 a. m.

Friday in Wyuka cemetery, with Rev. Harold Gosnell officiating. In addition to his position in the sanitarium from 1905 until his retirement in 1931, he was team physician for the Uni versity of Nebraska football team during that time. In Army Medieal From 1938 to 1940, Dr. Everett was head of the medical department at Sun Valley, Ida, During the war he replaced the superintendent the Hastings state hospital, who was called into the service.

He returned to Lincoln in 1945. During the first World wur Dr. Everett served with the army medical corps. Born at Troy Grove, in 18R1, the son of Dr. Jerome Oliver Everett and Arta Blanche Everett, he came to Lincoln ten years later.

Dr. Everett wns educated in the public schools, and took ins doc tor of medicine degree at the University of Nebraska in 1905 He was member of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Ro Sigma, Theta Nu Epsilon and the club, while at tending the university. Dr. Everett was a member of the chamber of commerce, East Lincoln lodge, A. F.

A A. the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, University club Lincoln Country club and the Lancaster County Medical society Surviving are his wife, Kath ryn May McPheely Everett; two daughters, Mrs. E. L. Sloniger of San Francisco, and Mrs.

M. Hewett of Ottawa, a broth er, Dr. E. A. Everett, Lincoln; sister, Mrs.

Inis Stern, Howard nnd two grandchildren. Engineers Chief Dead Peterson Succumbs During Conference SAN A NCI SCO (AP) P. O. Peterson, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Engineers, dropped dead today talking with the presidential railway strike board at the Palace hotel. Peterson was talking about the recent strike of Southern Pacific engineers.

He had spoken some 10 minutes when he suddenly slumped to the floor. The board had just begun hearing discussions of the points unsettled by the strike. Relief To Counties On Increase Advances to counties to meet relief needs showed nr. Increase from $1,262,984 In June to $1,342,497 for July, Neil Vandcmoer assistance dire ctor, reported Wednesday. Of this amount, $1,332,408 was from state funds and from federal funds.

Delay in passing federal appropriation bills caused use of state fundi which will be repaid. Divorced Wife Of Rancher Asks Widow's Share Estate Former Wife Of Joseph Minor Says Separation IjCyal The legal fight or an Alameda, woman to obtain a share of the rich estate of the late Joseph H. Minor, Hyannis, cattle rancher, was aired in Federal court here Federal Judge John Delehant, after an all morning took under advisement a motion for dismissal by the defendants in the action filed by Mrs. the attorney for the has until Sept. 10 to file his brieL while attorney for the plaintiff has until Sept, 30 to file answer.

Says Divorce During the hearing today, AW torney W. E. Metz, of Alliance (Continued on Page Two) THE WEATHER LINCOLN Partly cloudy and slightly through Thursday; highest temperature near 83 this afternoon, lowest near 64 highest nesr 86 Thursday. NEBRASKA: Partly cloudy, a faw scattered In wetit ana north slightly warmersoutheast half tonight; Thursday partly cloudy with highest temperature 83-90. KAN8AH Partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight and Thursday with a few scattered in west, highest temperature Thursday, 83-88.

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Minor, the cattle sec ond wife. Mrs. Minor, had asked that she be awarded one-fourth of estate, valued by court appraisers at $142,523.11, on the ground that her divorce from the sandhills rancher in 1945 at St. Paul, was not valid. Died 1946.

Minor died on December 17, 1946, about a year and a half his second wife, whom he had met on a European cruise, had divorced him. He loft an estate which included a one-fifth interest in the Joseph H. Minor corporation, which runs a 35,000 acre ranch near Hyannis The senior Minor willed his interest to his son, Harry Minor, who is now the executor of the last will. Mrs. Minor, who was married for 17 years to Joseph H.

Minor, filed her action in Federal court at Grand Island on March 22, 1947. The motion for dismissal was heard by Judge Delehant in Lincoln for the convenience of the attorneys on both sides of the case. Judge Delehant will probably rule on the motion to dis- misa sometime October, since 3 .30 4 30 P. 5:30 p. 6 30 p.

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